Collocations withphone
These are words often used in combination withphone.
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cordless phone
Digital signals allowed the phones to be more secure and decreased eavesdroppingit was relatively easy to eavesdrop on analog cordless phone conversations.
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landline phone
Local 7-digit landline phone numbers start with 894.
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obscene phone
Obviously obscene phone calls are shocking when they happen.
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phone bill
Very few parents today can be certain beyond reasonable doubt that they will not be blasted by the shock waves of an astronomical phone bill.
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phone conversation
Furthermore, texting and indeed phone conversation is just as much a technology, a skill, recourse for poetry and love, as is a daisy or a mountain.
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phone interview
There were no other differences between the phone interview patients and self-administered patients.
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phone line
With video transmission over the phone line, a context more like face-to-face conversation can be achieved, and much more complex par ticipation frameworks are possible.
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phone records
The officer said that he would investigate and call back, and it was that call that is on the phone records.
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phone service
The even stronger 1922 earthquake damaged buildings, cut phone service, and stopped the railroad.
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phone user
The motives or primary purposes of the phone user are clearly irrelevant to the issue of their responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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threatening phone
The research has emphasised the importance of carefully monitoring the effects of the new technology on reducing obscene and threatening phone calls.
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